Subjects
English
Art and Design
Mathematics
English has a pre-eminent place in education and in society. A high-quality education in English will teach pupils to speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others and through their reading and listening, others can communicate with them.
Mathematics
Art and Design
Mathematics
Mathematics is an interconnected subject in which students need to be able to move fluently between representations of mathematical ideas. The programme of study for key stage 3 is organised into distinct domains.
Science
Art and Design
Art and Design
A high-quality science education provides the foundations for understanding the world through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics.
Science has changed our lives and is vital to the world’s future prosperity, and all students should be taught essential aspects of the knowledge, methods, processes and uses of science
Art and Design
Art and Design
Art and Design
Art, craft and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity. A high-quality art and design education should engage, inspire and challenge students, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design.
Citizenship
Design and Technology
Computer Science
A high-quality citizenship education helps to provide students with knowledge, skills and understanding to prepare them to play a full and active part in society. In particular, citizenship education should foster students’ keen awareness and understanding of democracy, government and how laws are made and upheld.
Computer Science
Design and Technology
Computer Science
A high-quality computing education equips students to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world.
Computing has deep links with mathematics, science, and design and technology, and provides insights into both natural and artificial systems.
The core of computing is computer science, in which students are
A high-quality computing education equips students to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world.
Computing has deep links with mathematics, science, and design and technology, and provides insights into both natural and artificial systems.
The core of computing is computer science, in which students are taught the principles of information and computation, how digital systems work, and how to put this knowledge to use through programming.
Design and Technology
Design and Technology
Design and Technology
Design and technology is an inspiring, rigorous and practical subject.
Using creativity and imagination, students design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values.
They acquire a broad range of subject knowledge and draw on disciplines s
Design and technology is an inspiring, rigorous and practical subject.
Using creativity and imagination, students design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values.
They acquire a broad range of subject knowledge and draw on disciplines such as mathematics, science, engineering, computing and art. Students learn how to take risks, becoming resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable citizens.
Cooking and Nutrition
Design and Technology
Design and Technology
As part of their work with food, students are taught how to cook and apply the principles of nutrition and healthy eating. Instilling a love of cooking in students will also open a door to one of the great expressions of human creativity.
Learning how to cook is a crucial life skill that enables students to feed themselves and others affordably and well, now and in later life.
Geography
Geography
Geography
A high-quality geography education should inspire in students a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives.
Teaching equips students with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes.
History
Geography
Geography
A high-quality history education will help students gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of that of the wider world. It inspires students’ curiosity to know more about the past.
Teaching equips students to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. History he
A high-quality history education will help students gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of that of the wider world. It inspires students’ curiosity to know more about the past.
Teaching equips students to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. History helps students to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.
Languages
Geography
Languages
Learning a foreign language is a liberation from insularity and provides an opening to other cultures.
A high-quality languages education fosters students’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world.
The teaching enables students to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and to understand and respond to its speakers, both in speech and in writing.
Music
Geography
Languages
Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity.
A high-quality music education engages and inspires students to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increases their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement.